Kotel: Hidden Moon

1999

“..The Kotel, the Holy Wall which surrounded the Holy Temple is what gives Jerusalem its eternal meaning. Just as the eternal presence of the sun, the moon, and the truth can never be hidden by anything we create, so too will the eternal presence of the Kotel endure as the focal point for the prayers and hopes of mankind..”

Chaim Cohen

The Kotel, the Western Wall, is a section of the western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.). It became the most hallowed spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness and tradition by virtue of its proximity to the Western Wall, of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, from which, according to numerous sources, the Divine Presence never departed. It became a center for mourning over the destruction of the Temple and Israel's exile, on the one hand, and of religiousF;national communion with the memory of Israel's former glory and the hope for its restoration, on the other.

original height

60 cm.  23.62 in.

original width

80 cm.  31.5 in.

original media

Oil on Canvas

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